Match Point (2005)

Simply A Masterpiece

People are voting emotionally.

As Good As It Gets

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Good direction by Woody Allen, good performances by the key actors, but the film was spoilt by a careless flaw in the script. The police would have found out that Nola was pregnant, leading to Chris as the father, and to a motive for the killing. But after Nola was murdered, her pregancy wasn't mentioned again, even though it would have been discovered at the post mortem.

Woody Allen, among the Elite of Film Director's in Film Industry, & 4 time Academy Award winner, has created a luster which continues to shine since before his Masterpiece, Mahattan, who else can speak (Woody is so leveled headed, "bragging" is never synonymous with this genius,) So many others can learn from his Sanity,. Oddly enough Johansen, who is a rare miscast, nearly ruins the film, but Woody's genius saves the day. Filmed in London, a refreshing departure from Woody's New York domain, where filmmaking representation has never been equaled on Mr. Allen's respected level.

it is a story about "money can't buy love" and also the story about "money buy love and make one the slave of it".Movie musics are mainly from the opera. It fits the surround and theme. You feel that that classic operas are not so distant and are living today and we are part of these operas. In using the opera in a movie, I was quite impressed. The movie chooses the extreme point, a British noble family to easily convince us about the wealth and comfort and not to show us how the wealth could really sometimes make things more complicated. Also, the elements of love were so smartly figured that it does not bother, and the crime is so humanly depicted that you totally fall into it. The movie also touches to the fact that different classes can not go along well and also shows that how people easily become the slave of wealth and comfort. the movie tricks us by making the chances for the badman. The movie tests some hypotheses as well. Is he going to go with his real love or the socially acceptable one? Is he going to get rid of the yoke and free himself or is he going to kill his hope and subdue?

The vague and vacuous title of my review very much resembles that of the film itself; Match Point. Within the context of this production, what exactly does it mean? So, yes, one of the leading characters was a former tennis pro but that seems about the only reference to the film name. Neither have I read any review or reference to the fact that this is all very bizarre. As for the movie itself, I have never been a fan of Woody Allen but the large part of this film is engrossing with greed, morals and attitude's of the monied classes very much to the fore. Towards the end there is an inexplicable act that doesn't in my opinion justify the angst that has led upto it. However jolly entertaining.